West Cressy, a 6091.51 gross ton cargo ship, was built at Seattle, Washington, as part of the huge World War I emergency merchant fleet program. She was taken over by the Navy upon completion in mid-December 1918 and placed in commission as West Cressy (ID # 3813). Leaving the West Coast in January 1919, the ship carried a cargo of flour to Constantinople, Turkey, via the Panama Canal, Norfolk, Virginia, and Gibraltar. In March and April she returned home with a load of medicinal opium and tobacco. USS West Cressy was decommissioned in May 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board, in whose custody she remained until abandoned in 1933.
This page features our only view of the freighter West Cressy, which was USS West Cressy (ID # 3813) in 1918-1919.
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Page made 21 December 2003